Monday, September 06, 2004

Who is JadeGold?

JadeGold is a troll who frequents conservative and libertarian blogs, where he spews vituperative bloviations, sneering condescension and straight-up hate. If you've come here, you probably know that. (Unless you're Jade himself, in which case you may know it but you're far too disingenuous to admit your trolldom. Hi, Jade!) Jade has managed to get himself banned from an impressive number of blogs. See here; here; here, and here and here, for example. (In case you were wondering, Jade is a male -- see below -- though "man" would be too generous a description.)

Quite simply, the purpose of this blog is to recount what we know of Jade, as background for those whose curiosity may have been aroused by his shitwitted antics. (After all, it's not every day that one runs into a guy who seems reasonably intelligent but has obviously been seized by madness.) If you're not familiar with JadeGold, I suggest that you keep moving; there's nothing here that'll interest you. But if you've ever butted heads with Jade and found yourself wondering, "who is this asshole, and what's his deal?" I hope this will be the place where some of your questions are answered. I don't intend to try to deconstruct all Jade's dishonest arguments here. That's usually handled well enough by the people he's attempting to debate. My only purpose is to give you a little background on Jade. So let's get to it!

It is very likely that JadeGold is actually a guy named Guy Kevin Cabot, who lives in Fort Washington, Maryland. What evidence is there to support this conclusion? Well...

The 138.88.xxx.xxx IP addresses resolve to: pool-138-88-203-135.res.east.verizon.net; pool-138-88-203-130.res.east.verizon.net; and pool-138-88-212-154.res.east.verizon.net. In other words, Jade's ISP is (or was) Verizon. Guy Cabot's home email address is or was guy.cabot@verizon.net (let your cursor hover over his name and read the link at the bottom of your window).

The IP address for ORC.com is 198.77.68.245 -- a perfect match for the 198.77.68.xxx address linked to Jade. We also know that Guy Cabot at least used to work at ORC, where his email address was cabotg@orc.com.

Guy Cabot had a blog, where he made it apparent that he hated conservatives (and pretty much anyone else who wasn't a dyed-in-the-wool lefty). JadeGold hates conservatives (and pretty much anyone else who isn't a dyed-in-the-wool lefty). (JadeGold had a blog for a short time, too, but he apparently gave up on it.) Specifically, Guy Cabot referred to gun owners as "gunloons." JadeGold refers to gun owners as "gunloons. In fact, Guy Cabot said that Buford Furrow, Timothy McVeigh, Randy Weaver and David Koresh are NRA heroes and/or members of the "NRA Hall of Fame." JadeGold has implied that Tim McVeigh was tied to the NRA as well.

Some have asserted that JadeGold/Guy claims to be a Naval Academy graduate, but I've found no explicit claim to that effect by JadeGuy himself. However he has implied it, by stating that he dated "a girl from St. John's" while he was at "the Academy." St. John's College is just blocks from the Naval Academy. Nor has he denied it when others have said he's a Naval Academy graduate. (See the preceding link from Balloon Juice.) Even so, the service academies conduct exchange programs so it probably would be possible for a cadet or midshipman from any academy to date a woman from St. John's. But we can narrow it down a bit more than that. Remember: Assuming he's not lying about his educational background, JadeGuy could only be an alumnus of the Naval Academy, Merchant Marine Academy, or Coast Guard Academy, because only those academies offer degrees in naval architecture. The Merchant Marine Academy Alumi Foundation does not have a public lookup feature. Neither does the Coast Guard Academy Alumni Association website. So unless some readers happen to be USCGA and USMMA alumni, we have no way of checking those possibilities. We can be fairly certain that Guy is not a Naval Academy alumn, though.

JadeGuy also claims to have been involved in "two foreign wars." But since he graduated from high school no earlier than 1974, he can't have been commissioned before 1978. Vietnam was over. The next foreign war was the Gulf War, in 1991. After that, one has to look to the Iraq/Afghanistan conflicts, in which Jade pretty clearly hasn't been involved. There were various small actions, of course -- Grenada, Panama, the bombing of Libya, peacekeeping in various far-flung shitholes -- but I don't count two "foreign wars" in that period. Perhaps JadeGuy was just talking himself up. That wouldn't be terribly surprising, would it?

JadeGuy also claims to have minored in law at one of the service academies. This is interesting. It is true that cadets and midshipmen receive some very basic legal training -- in particular, the law of armed conflict and the Uniform Code of Military Justice, both of which junior officers may need to know. Typically, this consists of a semester or two of instruction. The Military Academy offers a major in "Law and Legal Studies," and the Air Force Academy has something similar, but we are pretty certain that JadeGuy isn't a USMA or USAFA alumnus by virtue of his alleged seafaring and naval architecture backgrounds. And the Coast Guard Academy offers nothing of the sort. Ditto for the Naval Academy and the Merchant Marine Academy So it's hard to reconcile JadeGuy's claim of having been a seafaring academy graduate with his claim to have achieved a minor in law.

Well, that's it for now. With luck, those of you who care now know a little more about JadeGuy than you did when you arrived here. Please feel free to add your own thoughts/JadeGuy research in comments. (But please provide supporting links.) I may update, or this may turn out to be the only post on this blog. Either way, enjoy!

Thanks, Anon. You are a gentleman and a scholar. Appreciate the SitRep. I had done some minor research on this fucking asshole, but being techchallenged I was not very successful. I will pass this intell along to others. 2Hotel9, Out. 3/13/05

One small correction: St. John's is not "a few blocks from" the Naval Academy, it's right across the street, though you do have to go a few blocks from the college to get to one of the USNA gates, since the part across the street (USNA is much larger) is just a wall with some officers' quarters behind it.

Also, when I was at SJC (1971-75), I knew of one (1) cross-street romantic relationship, and the middie's name was not Cabot. The two schools had very little contact, being entirely different worlds, which makes JadeGold's claim to dating a Johnnie dubious, though not entirely impossible. (Nothing political about the separation, by the way: SJC is rather less left-wing than most non-military colleges.)

Another piece of the puzzle possibly connecting JadeGold with Guy Cabot is this: He likes to use the name "Jeffy" to deride people named "Jeff" with whom he disagrees. See here: http://sayanythingblog.com/2005/04/25/why-are-taxpayers-funding-soros/#comment-55693

"But that’s not your purpose, is it, Jeffy? Your purpose is to smear OSI with ‘they didn’t respond to me, so they *must* be hiding something!’"

and here: http://site-essential.com/archive/2002/12/11/1161.php#comment-2433

"Jeffy asks us to use simple math; well, Jeffy, simple math often render simple and very wrong conclusions especially when a DGU is so very subjective."

Maybe he's jealous because no one can make up a cute pet name from "Guy." Or maybe he's just the childish, inconsiderate liberal - who cannot contain himself when his baseless arguments are demolished by other posters - that we've all come to know and ignore. Or, maybe both?

Thanks for posting this information, by the by. However, as a warning to everyone, he has a penchant for looking up the personal information of the people who disagree with him and trying to use it as leverage against them (wives, for example). Such disgustingly low behavior is expected, I suppose, but still disgusting.

JadeGold is from the old Usenet school of Internet trolls. Between the web and Usenet, he's possibly made as many as 50,000 posts. Perhaps even more, depending on the number of his identities.

As far as I know, he showed up in 1996 with a bunch of other trolls (all possibly him). The flat rate internet services introduced that year easily aided in the trolls' mission.

I estimate there were 2-3 trolls who were dedicated to harassing gun rights supporters on Usenet. Due to numerous aliases, it is hard to tell, but that seems to be the correct amount. Importantly, these trolls are still at it ten years later, though not necessarily on Usenet.

Two of JadeGold's contempories were a person named Rack Jite and another named Jim Kennemur.

Rack Jite's real name may be David Fuller Dahlman. He is apparently a resident of Texas and works there. He typically uses a Road Runner account. He also has a ten year old website (rackjite.com).

Jim Kennemur (possibly his real name, but unkown) who went by the name "Voltaire" may have been Rack Jite himself, or a friend and business partner.

JadeGold, Rack Jite, and Voltaire are all superficially similar. They are hell-bent and virulently left-wing.

Rack Jite was on the Internet for years before JadeGold, but JadeGold only shows up in early '95/'96.

There are some similarities between them:

Both Rack Jite and JadeGold have been continously active for the last ten years.

Both Rack Jite and JadeGold use the terms "gunloon" and "Jesus of Waco". Those terms aren't very popular.

Both claim to have been in the military and been lieutenants. Rack Jite claims to have served in Korea in '68 and '69. Both their ages have been placed in the 40s and 50s.

Both seem fairly knowledgable regarding technical matters (though they seem willing to through all that knowledge out to contradict and insult someone). JadeGold is suspected to have worked for a tech company and Rack Jite ran/runs a computer shop.

Looking at this it might appear that they are the same person. The only problem with that theory is that one of them, "Rack Jite", is in Texas and the other, JadeGold, is in Maryland/Virginia. The only way to cancel this problem is to theorize that one person is using a proxy server in one location to appear to be posting form another.

How likely is this? I have no idea. Both seem fully capable of setting up proxy servers, so I wouldn't put it past him.

It's also possible the two are acquainted with each other in some other way. The both trolled the same areas of Usenet at the same time. They could be "friends" of some type.

Either way, there are lots of old fart trolls around. It's best to ignore them and just let them age ungracefully. This behavior is expected out of teenagers, not adults.

JadeGold's identity has been confirmed as Guy Cabot of Fort Washington, MD.

He started deleting posts of mine on his site (after months of suggesting that it was me who was the censor...ha!!) when I used the name Guy or Guy Cabot to refer to him, and started wailing that I was threatening him because I exposed him.

http://progunprogressive.com/?p=768

I posted his address and phone number, in case anyone wants to remind him that the Internet isn't nearly as anonymous as he thought it was.

He especially loves it if you post his name or refer to him by name. Please do so, but put an extra space in there someplace. You can call him Guy and it will post, use "Cabot" and it blocks it. So, I'd suggest "C abot", "Ca bot", etc.

Guy Kevin CabotGraduated from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in 1978 with a degree in Nautical Science/Marine Transportation. Yes, he does live in Fort Washington with his lovely wife (who will remain nameless). He is the son of a retired Navy Captain. I don't think that he's really as liberal as he claims, he just likes jerking people's chains and the conservatives feed his cravings. All other information I've read here about him is pretty much true and accurate.

Unfortunately, he has discovered proxy servers, but apparently has not caught on to the fact that most stat-tracking webpages (like SiteMeter) see through them. Additionally, .htaccess file "block from" lines appear to work against these IPs, proxy server or no.

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